Mob Mentality Or Hive Mind?

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All of live in a society where it is impossible to be blasted with opinions wherever we are, and one could say it is near impossible to develop your own logical opinion because it is influenced by everything around you and not developed through reasoning and thought. This is where mob mentality comes in. Mob mentality is created when members of a group latch onto the ideas and beliefs of other members until you create a hive mind. These people follow blindly what everyone else thinks and when deciding for themselves about something they think about what their peers would think of the person's decision. Hive minds are not horrible things, but without different opinions we cannot move forward as a society in a balanced way. On the other side we have those of what I call the "reverse hive …show more content…
These people think they are special and unique because they go against the hive mind, when in reality they don't go against the hive mind because of any thought or reason, but because they believe it is a way to be

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